Reverse Engineer Your Life: The Path to Legacy

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There are some people that make their
work just another thing they have to do,

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and there are those that make their
work something that they want to do.

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Welcome to Working on Purpose with your
host Elise Cortes. In our program,

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we provide guidance and inspiration from those
people who have found deeper meaning and

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personal connection to their work life.
It's beyond nine to five. It's working

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on Purpose. Now Here is your
host, Elise Cortes. Welcome back to

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Working on Purpose show. Thanks for
tuning again this week. I'm your host,

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Elise Cortes. Join you live from
Dallas, Texas, which is home

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base for me. If you've been
tuning in for a while, then you

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know this program is all about help
people create more meaningful and purposeful lives and

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equipping leaders insider organizations to cultivate meaning
and purpose that elicits passion inspired contribution,

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innovation, and persevering performance. I
talk with my guest to draw on their

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expertise and share my own experience consulting
speaking at Devlo workforces across the globe every

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week. In these conversations, I
hope you walk away with something you can

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meetately put to use in your life. And if I can do anything to

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help you along your journey. Go
to my website at leakscoretest dot com and

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use the contact Me future to message
me and let's open a dialogue and explore

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what's going on for you and see
how I might be able to help.

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Whether you want to join the distribution
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topics. You want to see about
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or a mastermind community to nurture your
own purpose or bring it out to the

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world. You want to look into
a purpose driven leadership program for yourself or

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your team, which are offered on
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the Women on Purpose Thought Leadership Summit
in Portland in September, or you'd like

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me to speak for your company or
conference at any rate. I'm glad we're

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connected. Thanks for listening. Now
onto this week's program with us today is

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Rabbi Daniel Cohen, who is a
popular motivator, mentor, and inspirational speaker.

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He has served in the Rabbinet for
over twenty years, sharing hundreds of

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life affirming moments from birth to death. He's the author of What Will They

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Say About You When You're Gone?
Creating a life for legacy. We'll be

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talking about this wonderful book today in
the program. Rabbi Cohen, welcome to

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Working on Purpose. Thank you very
much for having me. I appreciate it.

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It is so great to be connected
to you again, thanks to your

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publicist who found me. And what
a perfect conversation you and I can have.

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I read your book from cover to
cover and thoroughly enjoyed it, and

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in You're Welcome and in your book, Rabbi, I feel like I really

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did come to know you as a
very incredibly warm person, grateful for your

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life and your relationships and just loving
being in complete service to others. And

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so it's great to connect with you
and have you on the program. Thank

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you. Know I look forward to
the opportunity. And Joanne's a good woman,

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so I also feel blessed that she
connected us. Yeah, me too,

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Thank you, Joanne. So let's
start first, since, as we

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were talking about before we get on
the air, I'm writing my own book.

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I know what an effort that is. And your book has a very

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specific message in it. I think
I know the answer, but just in

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case, what inspired you to write
it? I would say it's two things.

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Primarily, my mom, as I
wrote in the book, passed away

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from a brain aneurysm when she was
a forty four years old, and my

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life was truly turned upside down in
that moment, really appreciating the fact that

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life can change in an instant.
And I would say it wasn't only that

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moment alone, but my parents,
my father he should live me well,

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always gave me a sense of the
value of life, living with a sense

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of gratitude and a higher purpose.
And then when I got to the same

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age as my mother was, I
always knew that she was young. I

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began to look at life in a
much deeper way and really ask myself,

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am I really leading the kind of
life that I should be leading him?

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I'm making the most of the days
that I've been blessed with. So that

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really was, in many ways the
catalyst for the book, and the other

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piece was really in my professional life. As a rabbi, I oftentimes confront

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people that, in moments of crisis, get very serious. They think of

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out what's important. Someone's going to
a hospital, and they'll say, Rabbi,

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pray for me, and then I
want to hear from them again.

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And the nature of life is that
in these moments of CHRISTI as we get

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serious, but I really thought about
how do we stay focused on what is

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truly important on a day to day
basis, and how do we really try

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to transform time which passes into something
which is truly eternal before I could hang

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on to that all day long.
Rabbi, that's so beautiful. I really

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want to presence this for our listeners. One, the fact that you grew

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up in a household where topics like
purpose we're actually talked about. That's incredible

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and amazing. I didn't. I
had an amazing upbringing, but I didn't

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have that that came from me later
in life. So I just really want

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to celebrate that first. And then
the second thing is I really want to

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get us into that space talking about
this acute awareness of the fragility of life

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and that there's the gift of every
day. You do that so beautifully in

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your book, Rabbi, But when
I go out and speak, I talk

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about, you know, what will
you do with your one precious life?

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And you know there's let's not work
on someday kind of a concept. Ye,

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go ahead, No, I would
say that. You know, I've

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seen so many times and I think
it just really speaks to the essence of

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who I am and just more sensitive
to the ideas nobody inside of them and

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you get them in a quiet room
doesn't really want to make more out of

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their life, doesn't want to build
strong relationship, doesn't want to lead a

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more grateful life. And I see
my role primarily as to help myself and

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help others turn off the outside noise. I always tell people stop watching so

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much TV except for or radio except
for your show. Of course I have

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to say that, thank you you
problem. But the point is there's a

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lot inside of us that we're not
listening to. And I'm there to really

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try to help people and I'm sure
you do too, just feel what's already

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inside of them. And the book
really is intended to help people create that

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sacred space to really think about what
kind of life do we aspire to know?

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What is the kind of life that
we want to lead? Not when

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you're sitting, god forbid, in
a hospital bed or you're walking out of

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a funeral, but who's listening to
the show or thinking right now, what

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are the words that I want to
be remembered by? And then really help

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people on a journey so that they
keep that front and center on a daily

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basis. And one of the things
that you said early in your book that

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really resonated with me, and people
say something similar to me, but I

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think yours a much much heightened level. But it's this notion that you live

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every day with a heightened sense of
urgency to realize your divine potential and to

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do your utmost every day, to
harness all over your energy in towns,

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to helping others do the same for
themselves. That urgency piece is what I'm

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interested in talking about if we can, Rabbi, can you help our listeners

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understand why is that urgency there for
you and why is it important for you?

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Say? You know Kerkergard wrote many
years ago he said, boredom is

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the root of all evil. And
the truth is I really think about and

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this is what my faith teaches me
that every day and literally every moment,

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God is infusing me with new life
and new purpose and I never should lead

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life that I'm entitled to anything.
The sun may not come up tomorrow,

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and if the sun does come up
tomorrow, that's a new way that God

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is smiling on me and smiling all
of us, And say make today a

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great day. You know, there's
a blessing that I make. And I

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think about this a lot. I
had a kidney stone a number of years

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ago and it was really painful.
And after that kidney stone, I recited

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a blessing that we have in the
Jewish faith, with a lot of concentration.

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There's a blessing we say after you
leave the bathroom. May sound a

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little bit odd to people, and
I thank God for what is open is

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open, and what is closed is
closed, and everything is working properly.

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It is I shouldn't have to wait
and nobody for kidneys stone to say,

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Wow, everything is functioning well.
The truth is is that the smallest of

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things can really create the greatest of
havoc. And I think sometimes we miss

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the beauty and the gift. Every
breath that we take is really a new

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infusion of life. And when we
lead our life that way, when somebody,

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for example, God forbid, is
drowning, you can't breathe, and

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all of a sudden you lift your
head up up over the water, you

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feel so alive. So we can
capture that moment, our lives will be

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so much more zoned in. We'll
not talk through people, we'll talk with,

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people will pay attention to the world
around us, we'll smell the role

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around us, and we will really
realize that too often we walk sightless among

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miracles, and beauty is all around
us and inside of us. No,

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and I love that, Rabbi.
I'm so with you. Yes, every

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moment, let's just drink it in
and just be there in it. And

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you know, as you know better
than most of us, people can sense

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that, right They know when they
see somebody who's really in the moment and

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enjoying life to its fullest, just
right there, they can. It's visceral.

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Yeah, no, one hundred percent. And I think it becomes actually

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contagious too, And maybe that's part
of you know, when I think about

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my role models. You know,
my mom of blessed memory. Whenever you

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would ask her how she was doing, first thing she would say, because

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I'm the oldest of six, she
would say hello Grand Central station. Because

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it was so crazy. But people
would ask you, like, how are

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you doing, and despite what was
going on in her life, she would

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always respond, thank God, fantastic. She had a wonderful zest for life.

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And my father, really, he
tells me, I talked to him,

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he said, live life with healthy
uncertainty. Healthy uncertainty because again,

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you don't want to live in a
life where you're constantly feeling anxious. At

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the same time, you don't want
to take anything for granted. And when

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you see people leaving that life,
you also begin to see life differently too.

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I completely embrace everything that you said
there, So next, if we

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can, I'm really really very intrigued
the beautiful life that you live as a

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rabbi. Twenty years in the rabbit, That's just what a beautiful and rich

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life, and the experiences that you
must have had over these years have got

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to be just so enriching. So
I'd love it if you could, Rabbi,

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let us into your world a little
bit. What's it like for you

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to be a rabbi and how did
you get into that kind of work?

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Well, when I first opened up
my eyes as a baby, my first

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words were, I want to be
a rabbi. I've got that. Yeah,

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it's like you said, you want
to be a radio show host.

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Anyway, I would say that part
of it before I tell you kind of

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what my life is like a little
bit, But I would say it goes

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back to what I shared before that
I always not always, but as I

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grew up, I really did have
a strong sense that life had a purpose.

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I had a calling. My father
is a rabbi too, not a

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rabbi in the pulpit, but he
was involved in education, but he really

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tried, and my mom as well, to create an inclusive home, a

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warm home. Felt a strong sense
of responsibility to the Jewish people and to

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humanity. They enjoyed what they were
doing, and I also felt in my

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life that I was a partner with
them. I never felt that as a

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kid, like let's say we had
guests over. It wasn't like I wasn't

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doing anything. My mom would say, can you open the door and walk

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on the man? Can you set
the table? Can you help? So

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I literally felt like I was part
of this mission and I felt very motivated

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by that. And it wasn't necessarily
that that was what made me become the

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rabbi, but I would say that
was kind of the foundation of my life.

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And then as I got into college, I discovered, through really just

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doing some volunteer work, that I
really enjoyed studying us, studying the faith,

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and I also enjoyed teaching people and
working with people in this way,

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and I found it extremely meaningful.
My grandmother, like many, wanted me

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first to become a doctor, so
I majored actually in pre med and English,

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and I hit organic chemistry and realized
my passion was not for that.

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Then my grandmother said to me,
well, if you can't be a doctor,

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she's very serious, you should become
a lawyer. So she set me

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up working at a labor law firm. My two uncles are lawyers, so

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I worked at a labor law firm. And this is while I was studying

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to become a rabbi, and I
just did not feel the same fulfillment as

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I did doing rabbinical work. And
then I really discovered that was what my

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calling was. And it's a lot
of work for me. I really see

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it as a wonderful service. I
get inspired by being there to pastor people,

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to teach people, to get them
excited about God, about learning.

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I also do a lot of I
would say social action, inner faith work.

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Really try to build bridges across the
faiths and make people understand. Myself

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included that you could see the face
of God and any other human being,

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and sometimes we just need to build
some windows in those walls and create more

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bridges. So you know, I
pray to God every day for strength to

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do what I do, and I
feel renewed in the mission. Hmm.

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Rabbi, that was a beautiful rendition. Thank you for sharing that. And

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I really respect and admire the work
that you do, and I especially appreciate

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that you've been called to do that. When my research that I did some

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years ago around meaning of work and
identity, I did you know iView priests

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and a few rabbis, and one
rabbi said, you know, he wasn't

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actually called to the work per se. He fell into it later in life.

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But he goes, I got the
best job in the world. Yeah,

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I can relate. I know what
you mean. I mean I look

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at what other people do and I
said, how can you do that?

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But you know, that's the beauty
of it. We all hopefully find the

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right place where we can answer God's
call with our talents that God has given

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us. I believe, Rabbi that
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Hoyos, who's the transformation specialist,
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only one percent of the global population
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when we get to three percent,
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where peace is actually possible. That
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is It's pretty darn cool Karen Hoyas
h O Yos. She was on my

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I'm in for working on that.
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as you as somebody that and I
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Rabbi, as somebody who is an
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life that continues. And you're working
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in changing lives. And I know, as we talked about, there's just

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this some people will give into,
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their potential and their purpose. But
you do, and you really have got

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this idea of reverse engineering our lives
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the life that we want. And
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easy to read, It all hangs
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haven't yet read your book. What
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something that a friend of mine who's
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of what kind of life do you
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first main exercise in the book is. I'll ask people questions such as,

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what are the five words that you
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help people crystallize really the essence of
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starting with the end in mind.
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you know, I know where I
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but I'm not sure how I get
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and then I deconstruct and say,
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doing to get to that place.
So reverse engineer your life means if you

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want to lead a life where your
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take that he was somebody that made
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is a great way to be remembered. Well, reverse engineering means number one.

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I have to be present in every
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that I'm nurturing my own sense of
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sure that I'm somebody people can trust. And all those steps then become the

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way to be the kind of person
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Rabbi goes by so fast. I'm
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mentor, and inspirational speaker. He
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years, sharing hundreds of life affirming
moments from birth to death. He's the

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purpose. Thanks for staying with us,

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and welcome back to working on purpose. If you're just joining us. My

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yes is Rabbi Daniel Cohen, who's
a popular motivator, mentor, and inspirational

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speaker. He's the author of What
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Creating a Life of Legacy? I'm
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so, Rabbi the beginning there,
just learning a bit about your background

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and such's just so great to know
that you've really, from an early age

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understood purpose and meaning and it just
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I just so applaud that and appreciate
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the element of legacy, which I
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with a capacity to leave a mark
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and lead a life of inspiration.
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of course, and then you go
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humanity, humans have striven to become
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mortality and defeat death. And this
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the limits of time, but because
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be remembered, to lead a life
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that we have made some everlasting contribution
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that. So Creating Moments, I
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for our listeners, right, you
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So that's one of your principles.
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about that sure? I mean,
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is I don't know if you're referring
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so creating memories. For me, I

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think a lot about what are the
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kind of people that we are.
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my mentors said to me, and
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was a young budding rabbinical student,
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people don't care how much you know. They want to know how much you

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care. And the question becomes oftentimes
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experiences in our lives with those that
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and creates enduring memories? And when
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asked why I became a rabbi.
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parents told me, but I do
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Of walking with my parents to a
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support people of coming into a house
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just feeling this excitement and joy and
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I think oftentimes we don't appreciate the
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One story that I think about a
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funerals, which is not always easy, but I do find great fulfillment and

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giving comfort to people, where I
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to speak at their parents' funerals because
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there. They hear what is being
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are survivors to give thanks to that
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I really didn't know a great relationship
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I want to speak, So I
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came to the funeral, it was
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six people, and the woman said
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memories that I want to share.
She was like in her fifties. She

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said, I'll never forget When I
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outside, and I was fast asleep, and my mother came up to my

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room and woke me up and said, honey, it's snowing outside. Get

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dressed, let's go outside and play. And here was a memory that she

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shared over fifty years with her mother, of spontaneous love that for her symbolized

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somehow this relationship that you want to
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you know, I think about I
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I walk in the door and I
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my computer, I can do my
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table and then do my thing.
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eye, or look somebody that I
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take a walk together. And I
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people you want to create memories,
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and then eat his talk. And
those are sometimes the most meaningful moments

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that you can create. And then
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because long after you're physically gone,
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going to know that you're with them
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memories continue to be with them.
You wrote that story in your book,

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and I absolutely love that story.
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have had the experience, Rabbi.
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January, and I hear that,
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obits for both of them, and
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eulogies. It was really quite an
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the experience to be part of all
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the love that I did. It
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part of it on that level.
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I think. I have some inkling
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there about how and I did feel
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I did feel that they heard me
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a beautiful experience. Yeah. How, by the way, if you don't

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mind, I mean, when you
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were some of the character traits that
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who followed my mother out twenty eight
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just he was so hopelessly generous and
so incredibly giving. There wasn't anybody in

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town who didn't you vigorously nod their
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endearing. He was just he had
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was kind, and he you know, he was a businessman, and he

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really joyed making money because it was
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the world for other people. So
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many other things about my father and
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indomitable, magnificent spirit. I mean, she really really came from a hard

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life, and she really made something
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testament to what someone can do when
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they're determined to make something of themselves, and she did. And so that's

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one of the many things I said
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I found myself going around a P. Some words began with the word P.

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and that's how I described her.
Wow, Well, I didn't know them

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but I'm getting to know you,
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wonderful people. Well, thank you, Rabbi so well. So back to

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our conversation here alenas derail here for
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word legacy, what I find interesting. I love that word. It means

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a lot to me. It calls
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what I found is when I'm out
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audience get really kind of afraid of
that word. It feels too lofty for

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them. They're afraid of what if
I can't live with legs? Well,

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that's too much to ask of me
or whatever. And so first we better

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just start with the basic what do
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it important to live a life in
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that you know, I think your
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is associated with, you know,
something oftentimes monumental, like oh my gosh,

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I I led that life of legacy. But I believe, and I

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try to share this in the book, that you may not be able to

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change the world, but if you
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you've created a legacy Because for that
one person, It makes all the difference

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in the world. And I think
we create legacy every day. Legacy really

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means impact, lifting somebody up,
making a difference in somebody's life. And

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again you're familiar with the story that
I share, but I think about this

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a lot. About the woman who
said to me one of her most inspiring

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moments was when she was at a
parking lot and she saw a man getting

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out of his car with orthopedic shoes
who needed his shoes tied over to him,

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and she asked if she could help
him tie his shoes, and as

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she bent down to tie his shoes, she started to cry, and she

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said afterwards it was one of the
most inspiring moments in her life. Now,

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she never saw that person again,
but in that moment, she was

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the individual who that person needed most, and that's creating impact. I mean,

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I think about it also. You
know, you return a phone call

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somebody needs a little bit of help. You know somebody's having a down day

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and you don't know what's going on
in their heart, but you're there for

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them, You reach out out for
them, and you create what I would

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say a wave of optimism in their
life, a wave of hope and they're

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going to see somebody else and that
leads to something else. We're not responsible

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for all the things that happened afterwards, but if in that moment you've become

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a little less self censered and a
little more other centered, it's called where

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I talk about is the Elijah moment. You really create legacy. We can

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do it in the supermarket, we
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And to me, that's what legacy
is about. Yeah, go ahead,

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No, I was just going to
say, I love how you've then

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stitched together legacy in the Elijah moment, because I wanted to talk about that

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next. And I also appreciate how
you gave us so much access to the

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word legacy and really making it really
equivalent to impact that that I think that

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opened something for people. So that
was great and I did really enjoy your

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concept of the Elijah moment. So
for our listeners, would you say a

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little bit more about that? And
then I want to see if I can

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comment over about a way that I
do something in life and see if it

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fits. Sure. Sure, so
I call it the Elijah moment. Elijah

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was a prophet, the one who
is seen as an individual who steps into

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people's lives kind of when they need
it most. And it's really based on

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two ideas. One is I call
it the standing room only phenomena at a

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funeral, when somebody is at a
funeral and if you get asked the deceased

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who that individual is, they would
have no idea, Or a family member

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they would also have no idea,
but they're there because of one moment in

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time that individual made a difference in
that person's life. And it's called the

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Elijah moment based on a story about
an individual that goes to a mystic and

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says, I want to see Elijah
the prophet, and the mystic says,

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you want to see Elijah. Go
to a widow in the forest, bring

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her food for the weekend, and
you'll see Elijah. He goes deep into

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the forest. He's there Friday night, Saturday to Elijah. Sunday morning comes,

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he hasn't seen Elijah, and he
goes back to the mystic, and

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the mystic says, go back the
next weekend, bring food, and I

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promise this week you'll see Elijah the
prophet. So he goes deep into the

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forest. It's Friday, Afternoonsoon he's
with an earshot of the home and he

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hears a young child crying out to
the mother and saying, Mommy, where

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are we going to get food from
this weekend? And the mother turns to

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the child and says, just like
Elijah came last week, alive is going

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to come again. And it's in
that moment that he realizes that he is

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the Elijah that this woman is waiting
for. And to discovery your Elijah moment

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means. And this is a beautiful
quote from Mark Twain. He says,

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there are two most important days of
your life, or the day when you're

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born and the day when you understand
why. And I know that in life,

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everybody who's listening to this show,
you might meet somebody one day and

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you interact and you don't know whether
you're going to see that person again.

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But in that moment, maybe there's
a reason. I don't believe that any

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encounter is random. There's some higher
design why we connect and why we're in

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certain places at certain times, and
we have to reveal the light in that

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moment and create some connection, and
if we do, we become that Elijah

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for that person, and we can
truly make a difference in their lives.

446
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Okay, so Rabbi, you've done
it. You've made me cry on air.

447
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Thanks very much. That was beautiful. It moved me to tears.

448
00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:08.720
I loved it when you said that
I missed that part in your book when

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that he was the Elijah, and
that's so beautiful. Moved me to tears.

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It's great to be moved on that
level. So what I was going

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to say is for me, I
think I practice the Elijah moment. I

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call it random acts of kindness.
But when I'm out, I do this

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every day when I go out looking
for someone, whether they're at a supermarket,

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the post office, or whatever,
and I'm looking for someone that I

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can just acknowledge and say something kind
and good too. And I oftentimes will

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pick a woman and I tell just
to be able to tell that she's beautiful,

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because when I do that, she
gets bigger in my presence, and

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I see her walk away a little
bit bigger, and invariably she's blown back

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and has a very gracious thank you. And I get to walk away feeling

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that feeling of what you said,
connection and just having given something of myself.

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It's a passion of mine. So
it's a giving of myself. Yeah,

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00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:01.960
so that when I read your Elijah
Moment piece, I was like,

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I think I kind of do it
like this, but anyway, and I

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hope that some days, you know
that somebody that really does make a difference

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for somebody. Maybe it's a difference
between you know, them quitting their job

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or maybe attempting suicide and not.
I mean that's what I hope anyway.

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Yeah, so that's you know,
And I would say, just to amplify

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it one more time, to make
it even more practical, I would say,

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we have to ask ourselves, you
know, both at the beginning of

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the day, and this is a
key point, and at the end of

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the day, what have we done
today to really try to make a difference

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in somebody's life. It could be
a coworker, could be a sibling or

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a friend, or an email.
And no day should go by without having

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not only not done it, but
think about it. You know. This

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is any important message in the book
in general, but in life is that

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I'm sure everybody here has a financial
accounting. You know, you check your

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stocks, did they go up today? They go down today? You check

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your weight? Did you go up
today? Did you go down today.

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00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.440
How long did you exercise? Everybody's
got their fitbits. Well, we also

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have to do the same thing with
our lives. We have to take what

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I would call a soul accounting or
legacy accounting, because if we only do

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it like once a year, our
New Years, then we're going to be

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missing so many opportunities. You wouln't
do that with your job, You wouldn't

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do that with your portfolio, you
wouldn't do that with your health. So

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how much more so do we have
to do that with the beautiful gift of

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life and purpose that God has given
us. I will absolutely amen that.

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Thank you, Rabbi. Our last
break, I'm Alice Cortez, your host.

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We are on the Year with Rabbi
Daniel Cohen, who is a popular

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motivator, mentor, and inspirational speaker. He has served in the Rebinant for

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over twenty years, sharing hundreds of
life affirming moments from birth to death.

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He's the author of What Will They
Say About You When You're Gone? Creating

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a life of Legacy. He joined
you today from Stanford, Connecticut. Stay

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with us, We'll be right back. Alise Cortes is a speaker and engagement

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and development catalyst. She designs and
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To reach our program today, send
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at least Coortes dot com. Now
back to working on Purpose. Thanks for

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staying with us, and welcome back
to working on Purpose. If you're just

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tuning in, my guess is Rabbi
Daniel Cohen, who is a popular motivator,

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00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:15.239
mentor, and inspirational speaker. He's
the author of What Will They Say

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About You When You Are Gone?
Creating a Life of Legacy. I'm your

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host, Alist Cortes, so Rabbi
for this last segment, We're going to

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go through as quickly as we can. There's a few questions I want to

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00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:27.920
get out. Is in there a
few things that I want to surface for

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our listeners. I got to say, You've got a story in your book

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00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:35.519
that is so compelling I can't get
it out of my mind. But the

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story is about a businessman who goes
to his quote office every day for thirty

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minutes, locks the door, dons
the shrouds, lies in his coffin,

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reads the final confession and prayers upon
one's deathbed, and does so to ensure

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never to become arrogant and believe he
is invincible. What a daily ritual?

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So I really tried to get present
to that kind of a person such that

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a ritual would produce. And you
say in your book that the most important

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principle of ensuring your long term growth
is crafting the time and possessing the tenacity

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to seize meditative moments like that.
So you know, turning off the outside

519
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:15.199
road is kind of what you talked
about before and turning on the inside world.

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So would you say more about this? This is so intriguing. It

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goes back again to the concept of
knowing that really a lot of the answers

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00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:30.199
that we're looking for for direction in
life are not outside, but understanding that

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they're inside us. And I believe
that if we create, and that that's

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not always easy to do, you
know, in the world in which we're

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living, because we're so connected,
that we have to create time literally to

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00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:49.880
disconnect, meditate, to be with
ourselves, to take a walk to I

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00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:54.400
would say, since our humility,
you know, we're not the masters of

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the universe. We're really here to
serve, to bring the light that God

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has given us and share it with
the world. And there's no one strategy

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that I would say works for everybody, but I think it takes a commitment

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to that. I am a big
believer in prayer because when I say the

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00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:14.840
prayers every morning, for me,
that's my meditative experience. I actually do

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00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:20.559
it three times a day. I
recognize that I am here. Literally my

534
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:27.079
life is on loan from God.
I'm on borrowed time, and that awareness

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in and of itself just creates a
sense of urgency and appreciation for some people.

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I also try to write in the
journal I mean this notion that it's

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not about me, but it's about
something higher. I can talk about it

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00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:45.440
from here tomorrow. But unless each
person takes their own sacred space to really

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00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:50.880
reflect on that, it's hard to
do it. And the prayers are for

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00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:54.760
this person, the lying in that
bed or going on a mountaintop or taking

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a walk and looking at the beauty
of the world. It really is about

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00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:05.239
humility and sense of service and whatever
you can do on a daily basis to

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00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:09.000
create that mindset and then go out
and get the world and help the world

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00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:14.840
will help you stay in that zone. That's powerful. Rabi, thank you.

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I think that's very, very powerful. And similarly along that line,

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that one was so compelling for me
and really drove home the importance of taking

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time from meditative moments. The other
piece that I found really interesting and really

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important for myself was your point about
finding faith, something that I've certainly been

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cultivating in my own life. But
can you help our listeners understand what you

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mean by finding faith? Finding faith
for me is less about do I believe

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in God or do I not believe
in God? But it's more about finding

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faith that sometimes and we all are
going to have moments when we are falling

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down, We have struggles, we
have challenges, and finding faith is about

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moving past the questions of why me
and why is this happening? And living

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in that state of darkness and saying
what can I do to grow from this

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experience, to transcend this turmoil,
and to turn this obstacle into an opportunity.

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Because the truth is, once something
happens to us or that we are

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going through, we have a choice. We can either continue to lament the

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pain and the darkness, or we
can choose life. And every moment that

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we spend lamenting the past and not
seizing the present moment to try to bring

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a little more light into our lives
or to somebody else's lives, is a

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moment that's lost. And finding faith
is a belief that and this goes back

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to this other belief that if I'm
taking a breath of new life, that

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means there is a higher power that's
saying, you know what, I believe

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in you. You put one foot
forward in front of the next, and

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I will renew you with strength you
never felt it was possible. I will

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enable you to rise from this moment. And as the Book of Isaiah says,

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to run and not walk, and
to never grow tired and weary.

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That's what I mean by finding faith. That is so beautiful. It's really

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beautiful. Okay, So a next
I want to talk about this idea that

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you have here, and there's just
so much to get from this. I

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know. I'm like, I want
to get as much out of you before

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you leave me. We're going to
come show up to I'm coming to Connecticut.

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That's all there is lunch. Yeah. So I found your idea in

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the epilogue, the idea or the
goal about being no eulogies at our funeral

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to be incredibly intriguing. So say
a little bit more about why having no

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eulogies when we actually each finally passed
could be such a powerful way to low

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our lives, because I think at
the end of the day, I mean

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00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:55.599
again, there's a lot that we
can learn from people's lives, and I

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think eulogies have to have their purpose. But the idea is is that,

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00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:02.280
you know, somebody once said,
there's a story to where I once commented

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00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:06.039
in a class that I was giving. I said, it was amazing.

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I was at a funeral for a
woman she died at a young age,

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and everybody said that she had such
tremendous like faith in God to a t.

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And then somebody said to me,
you know what, I think I'm

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going to tell my kids what to
say about me at the funeral, so

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they all say the same thing.
I said, You've missed the point.

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It's not about telling them what to
say. It's about leading a life which

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is so consistent, so authentic,
so filled with kindness, that everybody knows

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who you really are. So ultimately, the goal should be not what are

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they going to say about me?
That's really just a trigger, but it

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should be lead a life where nobody
really has to say at the funeral what

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you did and the kind of person
that you are because your inside was like

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your outside, and you lived your
life with that tremendous sense of beauty inside

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and out that everybody really sensed and
everybody felt inspired by. Just that makes

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00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:02.960
I totally got present to the idea
when I was reading your book. I

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00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:07.360
love that I'm working on it.
We all are. I'm working on it.

598
00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:10.719
Okay. So you talk, also, of course, like I do,

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about living an inspired life, and
I preach this everywhere I go in

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my programs when I'm speaking. But
can you give our listeners a couple of

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00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:24.599
tips to live an inspired life?
Yeah? I would say that a couple

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00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:31.760
of things. Keeping a gratitude journal
is really important. Really, I advocate

603
00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:35.280
for that too. Yep. Yeah, I think that. You know,

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00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:37.800
it's not enough just to say my
daughter was the one who taught me about

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00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:42.000
her doing it. It's honestly enough
to say at the end of the day,

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00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:44.840
like I'm grateful, I'm alive.
I'm grateful alive. But my daughter

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00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:49.000
explained what she said. Every night
before she goes to sleep, she writes

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00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:52.800
something that she's grateful for, but
she tries not to repeat herself, so

609
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:58.119
that she forces herself to find new
things to be grateful for. And then

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00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:01.000
every day she was up to about
a thousand of them, she reads fifty

611
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:04.360
of them, and then she said, how can I not be grateful?

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So gratitude is definitely a key to
living inspired. I think another element of

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living inspired is never underestimate the significance
of any small, active kindness that you

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can do for somebody. And Frank
has a great quote about that. You

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know where, don't wait, don't
just say when I have time, I'll

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do this. If I had a
phrase over my bed, my parents are

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very, very wise. It wasn't
a picture of an Atlanta Braves player or

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Falcons player, because I certainly was
a fan. There was a statement from

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ethics or our fathers that says,
if not now then, And the truth

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is is when you do that active
kindness, when you go outside your comfort

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zone to help somebody, you'll feel
uplifted, You'll feel inspired, not only

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the person who is the beneficiary of
your active kindness. So to me,

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doing active kindness is another one.
Another way to say inspired, I think,

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is living with a sense of humility, you know, and really just

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the end understanding that you're here for
a higher purpose. Prayer is another way

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to stay inspired. So these are
some of the things that I recommend a

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lot. Awesome. I'm with you
on all fronts awesome. Okay, So

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as we wrap up here, Rabbi, I want to presence this for our

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listeners. So when I'm out speaking, especially when I'm out speaking, I

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talk all the time with people who
tell me that they just don't feel like

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they have the energy to really live
with passion and purpose, which is really

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a big part of my message,
and they just feel beaten down by everyday

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life. And of course I refer
to a lot of these people as they're

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walking dead in many ways. And
so I think your chapter on the seventh

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principle of discovering your renewable energy is
really essential to creating the lives that we

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want. So and you say that
whatever motivates a person to seize the day

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for impact, is this secret to
renewable energy? We say a little bit

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more. Yeah. I think that
everybody has something that they're passionate about.

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And that's the thing. Also,
the same strategy that I use, or

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one may not be what you use. But I think that when somebody says,

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what do I love to do?
And I asked this in my corregation,

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what do you love to do?
And how can you take what you

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love and give a little bit back
to somebody else in a positive way?

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And everybody can answer. Let's say
you're a musician. You love to play

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great, well, maybe now let's
help you find a place where you can

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play music at a senior citizen home
or for some kids. You love to

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draw, well, let's find a
way for you to use those craft skills

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to help other people. Whatever that
might be. You like to write,

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you like to whatever it is,
find the passion because every day there's a

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fire burning inside everybody. There is
something inside every human being that says,

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you know what, I want to
be alive. I want to make a

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difference in this world. And when
you feed that flame with the fuel of

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kindness, of godliness, of giving
to somebody else, you will be inspired.

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You will be able to get out
of the morass I believe that you

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feel, and to lift yourself up. As a mystic was said many years

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ago, my job in life is
not to resurrect the dead. My job

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in life is to resurrect the living. And that's really what this book is

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all about. And if I can
be supportive of anybody, certainly welcome to

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try to help. Oh, Robbie, that's beautiful. And I also resonate

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with that. And when I'm out
speaking, I talk with people and I

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asked them what are they passionate about? And oftentimes the first, very first

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answer I get is I don't know, and it's you know. Then they

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have to think about it and maybe
they can figure something out, right,

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yep, right, And just like
you, I'm really getting to because that's

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the juice, right, that's what
you're doing. You're giving something of yourself

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to the world. That's your passion
and that's your juice. And I love

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the way that you really help us
understand that that's the secret to our renewable

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energy. That is such a great
way to presence it. Mm hmm yeah,

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because it's in there, and then
that's what you know, we've been

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endowed with and there's something wholly about
that. So we have to again not

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just keep it for ourselves, but
identify what it is, which is not

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always an easy thing to do,
but sometimes you need a little help to

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do that and then find a way
to share that with the world. M

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h here here, So with that, we're coming to a close here,

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Rabbi, and this this show has
it's beautiful that I get to engage with

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people from all over the world on
this show, and I have listeners from

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across the globe. I do have
guests from across the globe, and it's

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really designed to help it will create
more meaningful and purposeful lives and work with

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that. What would you like to
leave our listeners with. I like to

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leave them with the story, which
is, we believe that every human being,

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before you're born, This is an
idea in mysticism, there is an

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angel inside of you that's teaching you
the path to meaning, significance and leading

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a life of legacy and life.
And right before we're born, an angel

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taps us underneath the nose and that
light is very deep with then we don't

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know it, but it's really inside
of us. At the very end of

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our lives, we're geted by an
angel and we recognize that angel because that

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angel planted the light inside of us. And the angel asks us two questions.

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Did you reveal the light that I
planted within you? And did you

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share that light with the world?
And everybody who's listening to this show has

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a beautiful light inside of them.
But I heard you ask yourself every day

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this question. Did I reveal the
light? Did I become the best that

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I could be with the life that
God has given me? And did I

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share that light with the world?
Did I change the world of one person

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today? And the more that we
can do that every day, the more

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our lives will be filled with meaning. And I know God willing all of

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us will lead lives of legacy now
and forever. Rabbi, what a beautiful

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way to close our conversation. I
thank you so very much for the gift

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of being on the show that pleasure. Thank you. We hope you've enjoyed

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this week's program. Be sure to
tune in to Working on Purpose featuring your

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host Alis Cortes week on the Voice
America Empowerment channel. This week, find

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your life's purpose at work.